Box-car-wall construction.



Patented Dec. 17, 1912.

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WITNESSES ATTO R N EY J. H. WEISBROD.

BOX UAR WALL OONSTRUOTION.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 20. 1911.

Patented Dec. 17,

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1911.

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Ll/iinesse U TED STATES PAEENT OFFIOE.

. JACOB'H. WEISBROD, OF ST; LOUISfMISSOURI, ASSIGNOR T AMERICANOAR AND FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

'iaox-can wam. CONSTRUCTION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB H. WVEIsBRoD, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, and being a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Car Wall Construction, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and to use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred form of the invention, though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, as it is obvious that various modifications thereof will occur to persons skilled in the art.

In said drawings: Figurel is a side elevational view of a portion of a-box car constructed in *accordance wit-hthis invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical "transverse sectional view through one side of the car,

said section being taken on the plane of line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view taken on the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a further enlarged fragmentary elevational view of the car wall, taken from within the car,

'parts of the structure being broken away.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but reatly enlarged with parts of the side wall roken away intermediate the top and bottom. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view of a portion of the parts shown in Fig. 3, but further enlarged to better illustrate the connections between the vertical postsand the sheathing plates employed. Fig. 7 is a detailed elevational view of one of the sheathing plates, and Fig. 8 is an end, or'edge, elevational view of'said plate.

The object of this invention is to simplify .the construction of waterproof walls for box cars and it comprises parts of simple design which may be easily assembled for forming a rigid and substantial wall structure, with outer metallic framing and with plates and wood lining.

The framing re erred to comprises a series of vertical posts riveted securely to the side plate and to the side connecting member at top and bottom respectively, and the sheath-' 'ing platesinterlock with the posts, with the side plate, and with the car floor, and are .held rigidly in their interlocked position Specification of Letters Patent. 7

Patented- Dec; 17, 1912.

Application filed September 20, 1911. Serial No. 650,479.

by the wood lining without being riveted at any point. The plates are fitted into their several respective positions and the lining serves to hold them fast.

Referring to the drawings in which is illustrated the preferred'details of construc tion, the-numeral 1 indicates the side posts 2 the sheathing plates and 3" the wood lining; floor structure and roof structure of any suitable design, but which, for convenience of illustration, are shown in connection with a floor structure, comprising Z-shaped side connecting member 4, disposed with outwardly projecting flange and vertically disposed web upstanding from said flange, and

all of which may be applied to awith inwardly projecting flange at the upper edge of said web, supporting a side nailing strip 4? to which the flooring 4 is secured;

and a side plate comprising a Z-section as 5 disposed with a horizontal web, with upstanding flan'ge 6 along the inner edge of said web, and with depending flange as 7 along the outer edge of said web. The usual wood nailing strip 8, isfixedjtlo the outer surface of the upstanding flange 6 by bolts, as 9, and rests upon the upper surface of the web portion of the Z-section.

The water shedding element of the roof, as

indicated at 10, extends over the plate 5, and nailing strip 8 .and laps the outer face of said nailing strip in such manner that water from the roof is conducted past the outer face of the flange 7 of the plate 5.

Each of the posts 1 comprise preferably a single piece of sheet met-a1, bent-to form a channel section, with oppositely projecting.

dinally of the car. The hollow of the channel opens inwardly and the lower ends of the lateral flanges 1111, extending longitu side connecting member 4. The lower ends 3 of the posts rest upon the upper-surface of the outstanding flange of said side connecting member.

The upper ends of the posts extend behind the inner face of the depending flange 7 of the side plate 5, and are fixed to said flange preferably by rivets through the web portion of the posts. The upper ends-of the flan es 11 are extended and are bent outwar Iy as at 13, and secured to the undersurface of the web portion of the plate 5.

The vertical inner faces of the flanges stand with the posts so 45 wood lining 3.

flush with the inner vface of the upstanding flange 6 of the plate 5.

The posts and their connections thus described form the skeleton of the walls, and

the sheathing plates, when applied, not only close the open spaces, but become interlocked as to form rigid bonds capable of withstanding the heavy shearing stresses to which the finished wall is sub- 10 jected.

of the plate 5, to a point beneath the car floor. The opposite vertical edges extend behind the inner faces of the flanges 11 and are turned outwardly forming flanges at l414,said flanges being fitted into the 2 space between the opposite walls of the walls of the posts 1, and engaging snugly against the inside face of the nearest adjacent wall as bestseen in Fig. 6. The upper edge of each plate is bent overthe edge of the flange 6 of the plate 5 as at 15, and preferably laps a portion of the outer face thereof thus interlocking with the plate 5. Suitable cutout portions 16-16 are formed to accommodate the fastening bolts 9 and other parts of the car structure as 17. The flanges 14 terminate at their upper end, just beneath the web of the plate 5, and at their-O lower end, at the plane of the car floor. The bottom edge of each plate is formed with an inturned flange 18 preferably extending beneath the car flooring.

With the .lining removed any one, or all, of the sheathing plates may be readily lifted out for repairs or a new section may be sub- 49 stituted. A wood filler as 19 is fitted into the space between thewalls of the channel posts and between the flanges 14 of the adjacent sheathing plates 2, said fillers serving as nailing strips for the attachment of the The lining is preferably composed of matched boards extending longitudinally of the car and disposed edge to edge, from the flooring to a point adjacent the side plate 5, and said boards are 50 fixed to the nailing strips 19 and posts 1, by

bolts or other means as 20.

This structure produces a substantial girder or wall at comparatively light expense, one which is water-proof easily assembled or dismantled, and upon which repairs may be easily made.

WhatI claimis: 1. In a car, the combination with a series of posts and sheathing plates interlocking with said posts, of a lining for said car entirely on one side of said posts, said lining being fixed to said posts and serving to maintain said posts and plates in locked relation.

2. In a car, the combination comprising a plate,

series of plates, interposed means connecting said plates, and a lining coextensive with said means for said car maintaining said plates connected.

3. In a car, the combination comprising a series of right angularly flanged plates, means engaging the flanges of said plates for connecting said plates, and a continuous lining for said car bridging the space between adjacent posts and constituting the means for maintaining said plates connected.

4. In a car, the combination comprising a series of spaced apart flanged sheathing plates, posts engaging the flanges of said plates for connecting said plates, and a continuous lining for said car coextensive with and maintaining said plates connected.

5. Ina car, the combination comprising a series of spaced sheathing plates, means connecting said sheathing plates, and a continuous lining for said car constituting the sole means for maintaining said plates connected, said linin comprising parts extending transversely of said plates.

6. In a car, ajlwall structure comprising a series of spaced flanged sheathing plates, channel posts engaging the flanges of said plates, a filler within said posts and between said plates and means extending across said plates and be ng fixed to said filler adapted to lock said plates to said posts.

7. A car wall structure comprising a side plate, and sheathing plates interlocking with said side plate.

8. A car wall structure comprising a side plate, supports for said side plate, and sheathing plates interlocking with said supports and side plate. v

9. A car wall structure comprising a side channel shaped supports for said side plate, and sheathing plates having flanges interlocking with sai supports and side plate.

1 0. A car wall structure comprising a side plate, channel shaped supports for said side plate and sheathing plates having flanges interlocking with said supports and with said side plate.

11. A car structure comprising a side plate, a floor, and sheathing plates inter-' locking with said side plate and floor.

12. A car wall structure comprising a side plate, supports for said side plate, a floor, and sheathing plates interlocking with said side plate and with said supports and with said floor. j v

13. A car wall structure comprising a side plate, supports for said side plate, sheathing plates intermediate said supports interlocklng with said side plate, and a lining for said car adapted to fix said sheathing plates to said supports.

14. A car structure comprising a side plate, a floor, supports for said slde plate, sheathing plates interme iate said supports plate, sheathing plates detacha plate, a'floor, supports for said side plate, a

sheathing plate intermediate said supports having an out-turned flange interlocking with said side plate and an in-turned flange. interlocking w1th said floor,"and a lining for said car adapted to fix said sheathing plate to said supports. v 1

16. A car Wall structurec'o'mpfising a side ly engaging with side plate, and a car lining adapted to retain said sheathing plates against detachment, "7 17. A car wall structure comprising a side plate, posts supporting said side plate, a lining fixed to said posts, and sheathing plates intermediate said posts and lining lapping the inside face of said side plate.

18. A car wall structure comprising a side plate, posts supporting said side plate, a 1in-.

7 gig fixed to said-posts, and sheathing plates intermediate .said posts and lining lapping the inside face of said side plate and extending across the top edge thereof.

' 19. In acar Wall structure, the 'combina tion comprising a series ofv vertical channel posts, vertically disposed sheathing plates; having flanges extending into'the channel of each of said posts, a block. filling the chem-- nel, longitudinally extending lining mem bers, engaging .said' filler one side thereof adapted to removably retain said sheathing plates nto engagement with said post.-

20. In a car, a pair ofspaced apart flanged sheathing plates, a channel post inclosing the flanges on adjacent plates, said posts having lateral flanges extending therefrom engaging said plates and a filler block in said channel engaging the flanges on the plates and a lining for the car engaging said plates and fastened to said filler.

21. In a car wall structure, a side plate and a sheathing plate having a bent upper edge hooked over said side plate and supported thereby.

22. A rectangular sheathing plate for a car wall structure having out-turned side,

flanges, an iii-turned bottom flange and a top channel edge.

23. A rectangular sheathing plate for a car wall structure having out-turned side flanges and an in-turned bottom flange and a top channel edge, said channel edge having cut-out portions therein.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB WEIS'B'ROD'.

Witnesses:

OSCAR HOCHBERG JCHABLOTTE MITZE. 

